Category: Interviews in Chinese

– Find out more about teacher training at the Confucius Institute. – Find out to what extent the idea of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been discussed in China – Discuss the core features of CLT with some Chinese teachers – Interview some “experts”/Chinese professors for their thoughts on the subject. – 了解更多关于教师培训在孔子学院。 – 了解在何种程度上交际语言教学（CLT）的理念在中国已经讨论这个话题…

Based on the 10 questionnaires, my conclusions are as follows: – TCFL teacher training at universities and other private institutions focuses more on theory, than on practice. – These teachers have little opportunity for post-graduate professional development training – Availability of teaching resources and materials is very limited – Limited awareness of different language teaching and learning styles…

The main limitations to my original questionnaire are: – The Chinese translation is not accurate, causes confusion, and therefore does not always elicit an accurate response from the reader – The questions are open-ended, which only allows for qualitative analysis, and not quantitative analysis 我问卷的局限： －我自己把英文翻译成中文。这样我的问题不太清楚。汉语老师可能不明白我的意思。结果汉语老师的回答也不太清楚。 －问卷的回答是定性分析的, 不是定量分析的

TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Questionnaire Chinese Teacher 10 Teacher 10 has taught English to Chinese students for about 4 years. Teacher 10 has kindly translated her answers into English, so enjoy! 对外汉语教学采访 第十汉语老师教汉语四年多了。 老师10慷慨翻译她的回答成英文. 享受吧！

TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Questionnaire Chinese Teacher 8 Teacher 8 has taught English to Chinese students for about 5 years. Teacher 8 has kindly translated her answers into English, so enjoy! 对外汉语教学采访 第八汉语老师教汉语五年多年了。 老师8慷慨翻译她的回答成英文. 享受吧！

TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Questionnaire Chinese Teacher 7 Teacher 7 has taught English to Chinese students for about a year now, starting in the Spring 2012. 对外汉语教学问卷 第七位汉语老师不是一个很专业的教师。他只教汉语一年了 For Teacher 7, seeing her students gradually express themselves in Chinese, is a great sense of accomplishment, and the main reason why she…

TCFL (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Questionnaire Chinese Teacher 6 对外汉语教学问卷 第六汉语老师教汉语半年了。 Teacher 6 is new to teaching, with just 6 months experience. She joined this profession for the flexibility in working hours. She was trained at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Her studies focused on teaching spoken Chinese, teaching grammar, vocabulary teaching and…

Chinese Teacher 5 Teacher 5 does not have a general teaching certificate (the British equivalent is the P.G.C.E), but she does have a Masters in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. She is a new teacher, with two years teaching experience. T5 uses a text book as the basis of her teaching strategy, and always…

Chinese Teacher 4 Teacher 4 is not a qualified teacher, but has taught 4 foreign students recently. T 4 believes that there are “too many” Chinese teachers nowadays, due to the high demand from foreigners wanting to learn Chinese. The result is that there are a lot of unqualified teachers in the market. Teacher 4 thinks that…